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The average age of a person with ‘no religion’ was 34 and students had the largest response of any segment of Irish society to the option at over 15%.

Other notable Census figures confirmed that some 12% of the Catholics here were born outside Ireland.

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Meanwhile the proportion of Muslim and Jewish people here increased by 28.9%.

The number of Muslims in Ireland rose from 49,204 to 63,443, while there were 2,557 Jews here last year- an increase of 573 over the five-year period.

The Census confirmed over four in 10 of Ireland’s Muslims (43.5%) lived in Dublin city and the surrounding suburban area last year.

Meanwhile, the number of travellers here increased by 5.1% to just under 31,000, while almost 60% of those were aged under 25, compared with just 33.4% of the general population, according to Census data.